Hsinchu, Taiwan –\u00a0\u00a0December 6, 2017 \u2013 Phison Electronics (8299.TW)<\/strong>, a leading provider of NAND flash solutions including removable flash, managed NAND, and SSD products, today announced combined SSD controller shipments to Kingston Technology (\u201cKingston\u201d) exceeding 18 million units. This achievement shows Phison\u2019s strong commitment to R&D investment in collaboration with Kingston to build a wide portfolio of SSD products.\u00a0Since 2012, Phison has\u00a0delivered more than 10 SSD controller solutions to Kingston\u00ae<\/sup>consisting of PATA, SATA, and PCIe.\u00a0\u00a0The latest duo of PCIe 3.0 NVMe controllers, E7 and E8, will continue to drive the next wave of SSD evolution for Kingston\u2019s SSD line as the massive transition from SATA to PCIe interface continues in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cPhison’s\u00a0long-term partnership with Kingston Technology has\u00a0enabled both companies to have a mutual and consistent understanding of the memory industry,” said KS Pua, Chairman and CEO of Phison. \u201cAs the 2016 economy recovered,\u00a0the\u00a0companies worked closely together to solidify their industry leadership in the SSD market as they\u00a0continue to expand their market share\u00a0through 2017, in the midst of a flash shortage situation.\u00a0SSD controller chip unit shipments\u00a0this year\u00a0more than doubled compared to last year. Looking forward, the cooperation between the two companies will be even closer to create new business opportunities and drive further revenue and profit growth”.<\/p>\n Phison and Kingston also share common interests in developing and marketing enterprise-level storage. Phison\u2019s S10 controller powers Kingston\u2019s DC400 SSDs, featuring flexible over-provisioning and consistent performance. In 2015, Phison and Kingston co-invested in Liqid Inc, an enterprise start-up specializing in enterprise storage and composable infrastructure for the enterprise market.\u00a0\u00a0In 2016, Kingston\u00a0debuted\u00a0the DCP1000, the company\u2019s flagship high-performance enterprise SSD, equipped with Liqid\u2019s proprietary RAID technology and Phison\u2019s E7 controller. At its launch, the DCP1000 boasted best-in-class read and write performance of 6800 MB\/s and 1.25 million IOPS, making it the world\u2019s fastest NVMe add-in-card SSD.<\/p>\n \u201cPhison and Kingston have enjoyed a close working relationship on many levels for over a decade,\u201d said Nate Steffens, vice president of Flash memory, Kingston. \u201cTheir technology has enabled us to be one of the market leaders for solid-state drives, USB drives and embedded solutions. With their continued support, Kingston will remain one of the top players now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Phison and Kingston\u2019s partnership extends beyond SSDs.\u00a0\u00a0In November of 2010, Phison and Kingston identified the massive shift from removable cards to NAND embedded in mobile phone devices and joined forces to form Kingston Solutions, Inc. (\u201cKSI\u201d). This KSI joint venture later expanded to include\u00a0Toshiba, Micron, and Mediatek.\u00a0\u00a0The marriage has proven to be successful, as KSI has now become a significant solution provider to the mobile, IoT, and embedded market, with a wide range of product offerings, including eMCP, ePOP, eMMC, and UFS.<\/p>\n In jointly celebrating Kingston\u2019s 30th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary, it is with pride that we relive some of Kingston\u2019s and Phison\u2019s milestone joint product innovations:<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0World\u2019s largest USB Flash Drive (Data Traveler GT 2TB), 2017<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0World\u2019s fastest enterprise SSD (DCP1000), 2016<\/p>\n About Phison<\/strong><\/p>\n Phison Electronics Corp. is a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. In 2000, Phison developed world\u2019s first single-chip USB flash drive controller. For 17 years, Phison created of a wide range of innovative solutions over SSD (PCIe\/SATA\/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, shipping over 600 million IC units annually. Adding value to customers, Phison also provides system integration and total solution services across consumer, industrial and enterprise markets. An active participant in industry standards, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI, UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe and IEEE-SA. In this release, the terms \u201ccompany\u201d and \u201cPhison\u201d refer to Phison Electronics Corporation. To learn more about our technical breakthrough in NAND solutions, please visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.phison.com\u00a0or contact\u00a0sales@phison.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phison and Kingston Collaborate on NVMe SSD Controller to Accelerate into the Next SSD-era Hsinchu, Taiwan  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[],"years":[20],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","years-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18122,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions\/18122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phison.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}